(July 9, 2014 at 5:28 am)Blackout Wrote: I study cases too because jurisprudence has some power, but I spend most time solving fictional or real life cases on paper applying the law. But this really isn't about memorizing, I can take my codes and laws to exams of course, no one would ask us to memorize 2500 articles, it's more about knowing what each article means and what they regulated, where they apply, and the theories that support them.Lucky! We don't get to take anything to bar exams but a pencil and our I.D. (We walked uphill in the snow both ways too). Seriously, it doesn't sound all that much different. Learning the basics of each area of law so you know where to begin to research it is what law school and the bar exams are all about.
We have an added twist you not be really aware of, or at least not aware of the importance of. That's that every U.S. State is a separate government. The substance of the law changes substantially as you move from state to state, though method of researching and applying it doesn't much. The exception is Louisiana which has civil law rather than common law much like most of Europe though case law still informs application of federal law there. Whether state or federal law applies, and occasionally which state's law applies is one of the very first questions you have to ask when deciding considering a legal question here.
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